Auteur: Juan Manuel Madrid Solórzano

Maribel Mendoza Solis is a full-time professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics at the Tecnológico Nacional de México campus Ciudad Juárez, and she obtained a Master”s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student in Advanced Engineering Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. Her research area is the supply chain leadership in the manufacturing industry.    Jorge Luis García Alcaraz is a full-time researcher at the Department of Industrial Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. He received an MSc in Industrial Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Colima (Mexico), a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), a Ph.D. in Innovation in Product Engineering and Industrial Process from University of La Rioja (Spain), a Ph.D. in Sciences and Industrial Technologies from the Public University of Navarre (Spain), a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Zaragoza (Spain) and a Postdoc in Manufacturing Process from University of La Rioja (Spain). His main research areas are multi-criteria decision-making and techniques applied to lean manufacturing, production processes, and supply chain modeling. He is a founding member of the Mexican Society of Operational Research and an active member of the Mexican Academy of Industrial Engineering. He is a national researcher recognized by the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT) as Level III.   Juan Manuel Madrid Solórzano is a full-time Department of Industrial Design professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. He received an M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Juárez. He is currently a student in a doctoral program in Advanced Engineering Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. His researcharea is environmental impact assessments in the distillation industry. Professor Juan Manuel is a member of the Mexican Council for the Accreditation of Design Programs in Mexico.     Emilio Jimenez Macias  is a full Professor at the University of La Rioja (Spain), in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He is currently the head of the Official Research Group Design Modeling and Simulation in Science and Engineering (De M&S), coordinator of the System Engineering and Automation Area, and director of the Master of Industrial Engineering. He was the president of the Federation of European Simulation Societies (EUROSIM) during 2016–2019, and the president of the Spanish Modelling and Simulation Group in Eurosim (2015–2018). He is the Spanish representative of the Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems Technical Committee (TC1.3) of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). His main research areas include simulation, systems engineering and automation, Industry 4.0, renewable energy, and environmental impact.